One of the hurdles to belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ is to make up your mind about the Bible.  Namely, can the Bible be trusted?  Does it accurately report what Jesus of Nazareth said and did in history?  Christianity, unlike almost every other world religion, is based on events in world history, and if these events did not take place (like the virginal conception of Jesus, his perfect life, his death, burial, and resurrection) then Christianity is worthless.  Or, as the apostle Paul wrote, "And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."  1 Corinthians 15:17-19.

Some "scholars" have theorized that the gospel accounts of Jesus are simply legends or myths that grew over time, much like the old Greek or Roman tales of their gods.  There are actually several reasons why this hypothesis is nonsense, but one of my favorite reasons comes from C.S. Lewis, who was a classicist of the first order.  He wrote that the genre of the gospels, or the style in which they were written, forbids modern readers from drawing that conclusion.

"I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life.  I know what they are like.  I know that not one of them is like [the gospels].  Of [these texts] there are only two possible views.  Either this is reportage ... [o]r else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative.  If [the gospels] are untrue, [they] must be narrative of that kind.  The reader who doesn't see this has simply not learned to read."  C.S. Lewis, Christian Reflections, 154-155.

We can trust the historical reliability of the New Testament gospels.  These gospels tell us of the Savior of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Read, study, memorize, and believe.